Comment by Esalya

On the battle side of the island, it's about 40% elementium, 40% rich elementium, and about 20% rich pyrite nodes. 2 hours got me over 5-6 stacks of pyrite. Needless to say, my mining bag got full, and I made a HUGE killing selling these on the AH.

Comment by Malithas

In my experience these nodes seem to spawn more often 30 minutes before, during, and 30 minutes after the battle. This also could just be my luck of how often I find them. On a side note, it seems no veins of any type spawn 15 minutes before the battle (After the gate to the peninsula closes).

Comment by Sparttakus

It is also in Tol Barad peninsula, it has like a 2 minute respawn near the entrance to Farson Hold, I usually camp that spot until horde comes in. It is found in Uldum too at random areas.

Comment by VivaLaRaza

The Pyrite! It has gone super saiyan!

Comment by daunte

It's over 9000!

Comment by emil5555

I noticed that pyrite do not spawn in the same place,you can mine pyrite now and the next spawn can be elementium in the same place pyrite was, i know we r talking about tol barad peninsula ,me i do my minning in uldum and i see no reason why tol barad should be much diff. Just an observation...hope i help somehow :)

Comment by edmeister9000

There is one problem spawn point in tol barad that few can get. It spawns just to the west of ironclad garrison. As a shaman there was absolutely no way to get it for me. And to further my disgust, i got to watch another player use levitate to get close enuf to get it...

Comment by Bulletmunchr

Exciting to see these on TBP, and since with the new patch making Volatile Airs drop more often from Rich AND Pyrite nodes, I'm just gonna guess that it's up from 3% to around 10% (Judging on my drops from newly adjusted pyrite and other cata nodes)

Get farming!

Comment by tpap

Since no-one seems to have mentioned this, I guess I'll be the first.

Both in TB and TBP the node spawn points are in groups of three in the different "sections" of each island and are shared by elementium and rich elementium nodes.

I know this probably pretty evident but if you find a node, then the other two spawn point won't have one. This means that you can save some time by skipping going up hills etc. to check the other spawn points.

I figure these groups of three have a collective respawn time of 3-5 minutes. This means that if you go around in circles on the islands (assuming you don't have a lot of competition) you will always find a spawn of something in each "section".

Personally I wasn't that lucky in finding these nodes... After 3hrs of farming in this way I managed to get a total of 51 Pyrite Ores (and a about 400-500 elementium ores) and 40-50 volatiles all combined.

Anyway, hope this was helpful, if somewhat obvious.

Comment by Levarus

Doing dailies in Tol barad i found 4 rich pyrite deposits close to eachother and i only needed 10 more skill points to mine them, well i went and leveled to 525 and came back and all 4 rich pyrite deposits were gone, >:O

Comment by Grad96

i still havent found one of these :(

Comment by stufffinder

Well i found one in TBP and ive lootod pyrite ore x5 wich should be the lowest to loot in the rich pyrite depositAfther 10 Mins more looking for some Rich Pyrite Desposit ive found one wich had 5x Pyrite ore AGAIN -_- and 2x Volatile Fire. So i think it have a 10mins spawn timer I Don't Know but it seems to. Hopefully this will give more info about the Rich Pyrite Deposit :)

Comment by wafflepudding

You'll get more ore from Twilight Highlands than Tol Barad or it's peninsula. Mining for rich pyrite veins is just a waste of time.

Rich Pyrite Veins: Spread further apart, worse terrain, less of them, higher level mobs, once you're done you have to wait for all of them to respawn.

Pyrite Veins: Close together, better terrain, more of them, lower level mobs, by the time you've finished the circuit they'll have respawned.

The few extra ore Rich Pyrite Veins give you are not worth it. You'll get far more from normal veins.

Comment by Roseshay

Since no one has mentioned this... there is NO WHERE else that has the Rich Pyrite Deposits.